Army Quote by John S. Mosby

As a former Captain in the Army National Guard, I trained hundreds of soldiers to lead troops into combat.

— Jason Kander

There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers , but…

— Frederick Douglass

Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.

— Marianne Williamson

There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real soldiers, having…

— Frederick Douglass

As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“Whatever the reason for enlisting, by 1865 the Union had sworn in 2,128,948 men, approximately one-third of the military-age male population of the northern…

— Allen C. Guelzo

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

— Bum Phillips

“By 1864 Wall Streeters had spies in the Confederate high command and could learn southern battle plans before colonels in the Army of Virginia did.”

— Mike Wallace

I knew some of the army quite well.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

— Chesty Puller

“Lee crushed this idea in a few words. “If I took your advice, the men would be without rations and under no control of…

— Charles Bracelen Flood

“Of the tens of thousands of men who died in combat in the war, possibly as many as half lost their lives in vain.…

— Stephen E. Ambrose